Lytton Strachey

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Lytton Strachey was an English writer and critic best known as a founding member of the Bloomsbury Group and a pioneer of modern biographical style through works like "Eminent Victorians."

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Predicate Object
instanceOf biographer
essayist
human
literary critic
member of the Bloomsbury Group
writer
causeOfDeath stomach cancer
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
dateOfBirth 1880-03-01
dateOfDeath 1932-01-21
describedBySource founding member of the Bloomsbury Group
pioneer of modern biographical style
educatedAt Leamington College
University of Liverpool
surface form: Liverpool University College

Trinity College, Cambridge NERFINISHED
Cambridge University
surface form: University of Cambridge
familyName Lytton Strachey self-linksurface differs
surface form: Strachey
father Sir Richard Strachey
fullName Lytton Strachey self-linksurface differs
surface form: Giles Lytton Strachey
gender male
genre biography
essay
literary criticism
givenName Giles
Lytton
influenced Virginia Woolf
later 20th-century biographers
modern biographical writing
influencedBy G. E. Moore
Victorian historians
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf Bloomsbury Group
mother Jane Strachey
movement Bloomsbury Group
modernism
nationality English
notableFor ironic and psychological approach to biography
pioneering modern biographical style
notableWork Elizabeth and Essex
Eminent Victorians
Portraits in Miniature
Queen Victoria
occupation biographer
literary critic
writer
partner Dora Carrington
period early 20th century
placeOfBirth England
London, England
surface form: London
placeOfDeath England
Ham Spray House, Wiltshire
religion agnosticism
residence Ham Spray House, Wiltshire
sexualOrientation homosexual
sibling James Strachey

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Thoby Stephen associatedWith Lytton Strachey
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this entity surface form: Strachey
Lytton Strachey fullName Lytton Strachey self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Giles Lytton Strachey
Bloomsbury Group hasMember Lytton Strachey
Hogarth Press notableAuthorPublished Lytton Strachey
Saxon Sydney-Turner notableFriend Lytton Strachey
Cambridge Apostles notableMember Lytton Strachey
The Apostles notableMember Lytton Strachey
Ottoline Morrell patronOf Lytton Strachey